[132780] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cage nuts/rack hw near SAVVIS DC3 (Sterling VA)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Wed Dec 1 11:49:14 2010
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
In-Reply-To: <20101201164329.GE7959@hiwaay.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 08:48:36 -0800
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Dec 1, 2010, at 8:43 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> said:
>> the colo provider may not want to 'waste' electricity/cooling on a
>> vending machine...
>=20
> A plain (non-drink) machine draws a few watts. I don't think rack
> screws and patch cables need to be refrigerated; if they can't spare a
> few watts for a vending machine, then you probably can't install
> anything new there anyway.
You know, I don't think the reason this doesn't happen is a =
technological one. There are a bunch of us who've been pushing this =
idea to DC and colo providers for well upwards of fifteen years now, and =
I don't know of anyone who's actually done it. The problem is supply, =
not demand. Combining someone who's willing to service vending machines =
for a living with someone who knows what we need the vending machines =
stocked with is the sticking point, since the market is too small to =
separate those roles, I think. At least to bootstrap. Of course, if =
the economy continues downward, maybe there will be more clueful people =
who figure stocking vending machines is better than no work at all.
-Bill
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